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Police report summarizing a major incident, prepared within the first 24 hours following the incident.
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Background or history of event/person/story being written about. In the pre-computer era of “hot-metal” typesetting, “A-matter” was often waiting in the composing room galley trays for a reporter to file the latest information for the top of the story.
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Assistant medical examiner.
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Assistant state attorney, a city prosecutor.
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Assistant United States attorney, a federal prosecutor.
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Slang term meaning a beer or drink or a hit of dope. fg drugs.
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Identification of source in reported information, as in
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Bureau of Identification, the unit that produces mug shots and other criminal intelligence material.
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Juvenile intake unit for offenders under the age of majority.
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A person who cuts cocaine in preparation for distribution.
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How many locals pronounce Baltimore.
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Answering a question during a polygraph test in a way that causes the needle to soar, indicating a falsehood.
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Slang terms for Baltimore, Maryland, illustrating its high murder rate.
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Baltimore Police Index. The city police computer.
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A concealed microphone. Not to be confused with The Bug, which is AIDS, or Michael Lee’s little brother, “Bug.”
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Shipping term for cargo that is stored in bulk in a ship’s hold and does not utilize containers. At one time, almost all cargo was bulk
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Pre-paid disposable cell phone.
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or in the case of sexual activity, given a dose of a venereal disease.
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Corporate purchase of the remainder of a worker’s employment, severing relationship with employee.
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Name of reporter who wrote a newspaper story, appearing below the headline and before the text.
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Criminal Investigation Division.
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Slang term for a shipping container that can be detached from the chassis of a truck for loading onto a vessel, a railcar, or stacked in a container depot. Also known as a box.
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Investigative interviews with residents and others in a particular geographic area.
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To perform a duty, often unpleasant, for someone who would normally do it for themselves. At times, the work of a flunky.
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When a police detective is assigned to investigate a crime/case.
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The car-to-car frequency used by individual police units. 开始学习
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Feature story, illustrated by at least one large photograph, in the center of the front page of a section of a newspaper. CHANNEL 3
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Dockworkers who take an actual count of the goods (number of boxes, drums, bundles, pipes, etc.) versus the amount listed on the ship’s manifest. Members of the longshoremen’s checkers local will also note shortages, overages, or damage.
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The main radio band for city police. All felony calls and announcements are broadcast on citywide. CLEARANCE
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A term of military origin used to describe a hopelessly screwed-up situation.
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City public works truck used to fix potholes.
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A truck trailer body that can be detached from the chassis for loading onto a vessel, a railcar, or stacked in a container depot. Also known as a can or box.
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Short for contribution line, which lists writers who contributed material to the work of another reporter.
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To falsify information, usually statistics. Synonymous with “juke the stats.”
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Someone belonging to a drug organization.
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A dog who turns his head in a fight.
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Where a drug crew dilutes and packages product.
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Drug Enforcement Unit. The district-level drug squads in the nine Baltimore police districts. The Western DEU, for example, is the drug unit in the Western District.
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Dialed-number recorder used to intercept the telephone numbers called from a phone and, if the caller ID is installed, to record incoming numbers. A preliminary step to any wiretap.
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Department of Social Services.
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Handshake between known associates that usually involves both hands being closed in a fist and then hit together, either knuckle to knuckle or bottom of hand to the top of the other person’s hand.
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The deputy commissioner of operations, the No. 2 man in the Baltimore police department, under the commissioner.
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Team of law enforcement personnel assigned to a specific case.
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A police precinct in Baltimore. There are nine
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To snitch on someone, to give up information to authorities.
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Slang for someone being shot.
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The judge on duty after hours, who can sign search or arrest warrants for detectives after court is closed.
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The night commander for the police commander, appointed on a rotating schedule from the ranking commanders.
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Driving While Intoxicated.
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Investigative term. A legal requirement that the police prove that they have “exhausted” all other investigative strategies in a case, so that they are justified in requesting electronic intercepts.
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An ancient slang term for police.
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An extra squad of district plainclothesmen that can be used to target particular high-crime areas tactically.
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To cooperate with authorities and give evidence against criminal associates or superiors.
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Dead body found in water.
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A single dose of heroin, packaged in a pharmaceutical gelcap.
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A make of semi-automatic weapon used by Baltimore police.
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When someone in flight stops running from police and hides.
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One thousand vials of cocaine, prepackaged for sale.
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Nerd and/or wimp, from the movie Forrest Gump.
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When an undercover narcotics officer buys drugs directly from a suspect.
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Term of affection. Homeboy may be grossly clichéd, but its abbreviated version is occasionally offered.
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Final edition of paper delivered to residential subscribers.
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Street slang for a knocked-around vehicle.
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A shipping container that is supposed to be off-loaded from a ship directly to a truck, rather than stored on the docks.
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Time working on a job or assignment.
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Slang police term for an officer who works in the office, rather than on the street.
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An arrest based on weak or nonexistent evidence, such as disorderly conduct or loitering, used by street officers to humble an argumentative or provocative civilian.
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Internal Investigations Division. Investigates possible crimes/ infractions involving police personnel.
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The Wire’s fictional union, the International Brotherhood of Stevedores. IN STIR
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Missing, lost, running from the law.
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State of Maryland “Electronic Benefits Transfer” (EBT). A debit card uploaded with food stamps and/or cash.
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Police investigation term used to describe an unidentified male dead body. An unidentified female is a Jane Doe.
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Where juvenile criminals are taken after arrest to be processed for detention.
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Code for the dispatcher on police radio calls.
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A two-foot-long, metal-encased flashlight that can be used as a nightstick.
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Fingerprints found as evidence.
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Baltimore term for fried, breaded white fish, served on plain white bread with tartar sauce and hot sauce.
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To hide from a situation, not get involved.
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To bring a witness before a grand jury, thereby locking in his testimony before he has a chance to reconsider and deny any knowledge of a crime.
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Someone who works for the dealers, keeping an eye out for the police.
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A written document, signed by the captain of a ship, that lists the individual shipments constituting the ship’s cargo.
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Statute protecting a reporter’s privilege to protect sources.
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An ordinary street character, possibly guilty of crimes and possibly not, but certainly not a taxpayer.
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Get your guns and get ready.
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Maryland School Assessment. Standardized tests for reading, math and science administered in grades three through eight.
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A drug courier who brings narcotics interstate.
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Those members of a drug crew responsible for enforcement and soldiering.
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DEA’s Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Information System.
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The FBI’s National Crime Information Center.
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A wearable concealed recording device, now out of date.
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Police term used to describe a black or dark-skinned person.
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Police term used to describe a white or light-skinned person.
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Officer in charge, either of a sector, a shift, or a unit.
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Wild, crazed, out of control.
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An office used to house a police detail that is apart from the regular police districts and established unit offices. Usually used for a single, complex case, such as a wiretap probe.
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On parole or probation. Not to be confused with having paper on you, which means you are wanted on an outstanding warrant.
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Desk work. Not working the beat.
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In flight from police, a fugitive.
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A single bag of heroin and a single vial of cocaine, suitable for mixing as a speedball, or an injected combination of both drugs.
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Law regarding the recording of phone conversations in which only one party needs to give consent for the taping to be legal.
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Exit phrase similar to “later.”
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One of the tall cranes at the Baltimore port, named for its manufacturer.
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Bulk weight of drugs used to refresh a dealer’s supply, or what a junkie calls his or her purchase from a dealer. However, saying someone has “the package” can also mean he has contracted HIV.
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Privately hired attorney.
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One involved in the drug trade, or in any illegimate activity.
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Percentage of profits on sale of illegal drugs.
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Officer needs assistance.
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Location. Also known in slang as simply a 20.
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Not available/out of service. Sometimes used by police to describe someone who is dead.
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Court rulings intended to expedite the cluttered judicial system.
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Derogatory term for Baltimore City public school headquarters on North Avenue.
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As a lookout, to warn a drug crew of approaching police or stickup crews. Also, to provoke or confront someone.
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An important, high-profile, or politically charged case.
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Replenishment of drug supply to slingers, which is kept in the stash house.
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Quotes from various sources in response to a breaking news story.
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Police department info from recent crime reports.
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Impel a suspect to implicate a superior and cooperate in the prosecution of that superior.
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Or harness roller. A uniformed patrol officer in a radio car.
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Roll on/roll off. An ocean-cargo service using a vessel with ramps that allows wheeled vehicles to be loaded and unloaded without using cranes.
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Low-level workers, often juveniles, in the drug trade who retrieve the drugs once the customer has paid.
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A patrol area under the command of a sergeant. There are three or four sectors in every Baltimore police district.
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A negative term similar, but not quite as harsh, to calling someone an asshole.
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Abandoned building where fiends go to shoot up or smoke crack.
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Attractive female or young person of either sex. Alternatively, a half-pint of liquor.
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Street slang for hanging out, bearing witness, taking stock of a situation, or, more aggressively, presenting oneself as having some authority or right to be.
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Low-to mid-level worker in the drug trade who sells drugs on the corner. Ranked above a runner, as he is allowed to handle drugs.
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A rank-and-file player in the drug trade, and, more particularly, one capable of enforcement or warfare.
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An intravenous injection of both heroin and cocaine.
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The house where a dealer’s drug supply is kept.
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Companies provide equipment and hire workers to transfer cargo between ships and docks. Laborers hired by these firms are called stevedores or longshoremen.
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A police report that is bounced back because of clerical or technical problems.
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A quick area raid and round-up of suspicious characters, loiterers, drug dealers, etc. by police.
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Short for tactical, which includes a variety of specialized police units, but is often used to refer to the heavily armored quick-responseteam officers used on raids and in high-risk situations.
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Hit locations with search-and-seizure warrants.
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To run low on the current supply of narcotics.
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Free drug samples given to fiends to advertise the product.
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The black-and-red-lettered caseboard used in the homicide unit.
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The police interrogation room.
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The House of Corrections in Jessup, south of Baltimore.
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In an interrogation, the excuse offered to a suspect that convinces him to admit guilt, albeit in such a way that the suspect believes his guilt is mitigated.
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Slang term for the courtyard in the low-rise projects in West Baltimore where D’Angelo Barksdale was consigned.
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Locust Point, in South Baltimore, home to many Polish stevedores and increasingly a yuppie haven.
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The process by which homicide detectives catch murders, are given a basic amount of time to work those murders, and then must become available again for fresh cases.
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Abandoned Baltimore rowhouses.
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What lookouts shout to alert a drug crew that the police or a stick-up crew has arrived.
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Legal term for a federally sanctioned wiretap.
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A street-level slinger who announces what drugs are available and attracts customers.
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Information or idea sent out in order to observe reaction.
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The basic unit of street-sold cocaine, named for the small plastic, perfume-sample vials used as packaging. The vials have small, colored plastic tops, hence such brand names as Red Tops or Yellow Tops.
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Money given to campaign workers on the street to get out the vote just before or on election day. WALKING FOOT
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A hard-to-solve murder. The opposite of a dunker.
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A wiretap, or a concealed recording device on a person.
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